Hop-separating cylinder.



E. O. HORST.

H01 SEPARATING CYLINDER. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 25, 1912.

1,054,120. Patented Feb. 25, 1913.

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M y. I (M E. C. HORST.

HOP SEPARATING CYLINDER. APPLIGATION FILED JUNE 25, 1912.

Patented Feb; 25, 1913.

' chine such-,as referred to and similar to' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EMIL CLEMENS HORST, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR TO E. CLEMENS HORST COMPANY, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, 'A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, EMIL C EMENS provements in Hop-Separating Cylinders,

of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to -a machine for picking hops and particularly to an apparatus' adapted to separate the picked hops from the leaves and trash combined therewith after passing through a picker such as is shown in my co-pending application, Serial No. 563,420, filed May 25th, 1910.

It will be understood that a picking mathat shown in my 'co-pending application is adapted to receive at one end the hop vines which are approximately six feet in length and have many leaves. These vines are attached to a conveyer and passed between picking drums whereby the hops'are removed from the vines. It has been found that in the process of removing hops many leaves and stems are also. removed and passed out with the hops in the, conveyer.

Therefore, the purpose of the present machine is to separate the leaves and trash from the hops. This is. accomplished in the herein described machine by the employment of a cylinder, preferably octagonal in cross section, this cylinder having associated therewith a separating belt and a sheet metal deflector.

My invention will be more readily understood by reference to the accompanying drawings wherein' Figure 1 is a side elevation of a machine such as above described; Fig. 2 is an end elevation thereof; Fig. 3 is a section on line 3,3 of Fig. 1,-and Fig. 4 is a detail showingthe slat attaching means.

Referring more particularly to the drawings itwill be seen that I mount my'machine on suitable vertical supports 10, and transverse supports 11. Angularly p'osi-' tioned members 12 are provided on the frame work just referred to and on the members 12 are provided bearings 13 in which'are mounted longitudinally extending shafts 14 carrying flanged wheels 15. The shafts may be connected to any suitable source of power.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Mounted above the members 12 is the;

HOP-SEPARATIN CYLINDER.

Patented Feb. 25, 1913.

Application filed June 25, 1912. Serial No. 705,769. I i v separating cylinder of my'invention. The frame work of this cylinder is preferably formed of four longitudinally extending 'bars 16. These bars are bolted't'o circular iron rings 17, these rings resting upon the Wheels 15, the rotation of the cylinder being accomplished by this means. A plurality of shorter longitudinally extending bars 18 are provided, these extendingfrom the upper ring 17 to the lower end of the cylinder. The eight longitudinally extend-- ing bars are securely connected by means of octagonal wooden'rings 19. Between the upper metal ring and the upper end-of the cylinder, I prefer to place a circular perforated met-a1 cylinder, the perforations being of fairl large size, one to one and a half inches m diameter. The remainder of the cylinder is completed by means of triangularly shaped, longitudinally extending slats 20. These slats as shown in Fig. 3,

are of 'difle'rent sizes, that is, 'I provide three of the smaller size and two of the larger size between each of the longitudinallyextending bars 16, 18. The slats are held in place by meansof the metal strips 21, which arefitted Within saw-cuts in one edge of the triangular slats; Thisis bestshown in Fig. 4.. ;The sheet metal strips are also shown in Fig. 1. This cylinder at its lower end terminates in a sheet metal chute 22, non-rotatably mounted on the 7 frame work of the machine. Any hops 'which have not been separated or which arestill 1 in clusters pass through the chute 22, into a novel cluster machine, application for patent for which is filed of even date herewith.

Mounted underneath the cylinder heretoforev described andv particularly beneath the circular perforated metaljportion thereof is an inclined sheet metaldeflector 23. Any

thereof is a belt separator such .as shown in p I my co-pending application heretofore referredto. This separator is composed of an endless strip of material such as burlap or canvas-25, this being passed over rollers 26, 27 at either end. An adjusting'bolt 28 is provided in order to adjust the angle of in-v clination of the separator belt. I 1

The remainder of the hops, leaves and trash pass into the octagonal portion of the cylinder where they are agitated and continually work downward as the cylinder revolves. Single hops and some small' leaves continue to fall out through the interstices formed by the triangular wooden slats and sheet iron strips along the full length of the lower portion of the revolving cylinder. The few leaves that do go through the interstices are taken,out by the'upward traveling separator belts and discharged beyond the same to be removed as rubbish While the cleanhops roll down into the conveyer by which they are taken either to kilns to be dried or, as the case may be, to a sacking spout if it is desired to remove the picked he s to drying kilns not contiguous to the mac ines.

The particular advantage of the triangular slats and the octagonal cross section of the cylinder resides in the fact that the hops, leaves and clusters are continually agitated and prevented from becoming clogged, all the hops being given an opportunity to escape through the interstices. v

. I claim:

1. A hop separating device comprising, in combination, a support, a drum mounted on said support and at an angle to the-horizontal, said drum being polygonal in cross section and provided with a plurality of perforoeaaao rations, said perforations being formed by intersecting longitudinally extending pointed members and transversely extending strips, some of the longitudinally extending pointed members being of smaller size than the remainder thereof, substantially as described.

2. A hop separating device comprising, in combination, a support, a drum mounted on said support and at an angle to the horizontal, said drum having for a portion of its length a circular portion provided with perforations, the remainder of the drum being polygonal in cross section and provided also with perforations, said perforations being formed by intersecting longitudinally extending pointed members'and transversely extending strips, said strips being part of the means employed for securing the longitudinally extending members in place, substantially as described.

' 3. A hop separating device comprising, in combination, a support, a drum mounted on said support and at an angle to the horizontal, said drum being circular in cross section for a portion of its length and polygonal in cross section for the remainder of its length, said drum having perforations over its en tire surface, triangular shaped portions extending within the drum throughout part of its length, and means beneath said drumadapted for further separation of the hops, substantially as described.

EMIL CLEMENS HORST. 

